Hellflower

PYRAMID BOOKS NEW YORK
HELLFLOWER A PYRAMID BOOK Published by arrangement with Abelard-Schuman, Inc.
Abelard-Schuman edition published 1953 Pyramid edition published November, 1957 Second printing February, 1969
Copyright 1953, by George O. Smith
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Printed in the United States of America
PYRAMID BOOKS are published by Pyramid Publications, Inc., 444 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, U.S.A.
For Doña
IT LOOKED AS INNOCENT AS A GARDENIA ...
But the Hellflower's perfume turned any woman into any man's woman. The haunting, pungent scent aroused desires too fierce to be slaked by ordinary passions—and left its victims burnt-out husks!
Charles Farradyne knew that no woman could resist the Hellflower. Yet Carolyn, the girl he wanted above all to possess, smiled when he gave her the deadly bloom—smiled and inhaled the perfumed poison....
HELLFLOWER is the fantastic story of a lovely woman who was not quite human—and of a man who went through heaven and hell to win her.